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Letters Patent No. 97,022, dated November 23, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOUTH-PIECE OPBRIIDLE-BITS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent'and making part of the same.

To all whom imna y concern:

Be it known thatl, ALEXANDER P. BALDWIN, of the city of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a- Reversible-Jointed Month-Piece for Bridle-Bits; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a, full and exact description thereof, reference. being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters otreferenoe marked thereon.

The mouth-piece is so constructed, by a reversible joint, marked A in the drawing, as to act in the usual manner of a jointed or snaflie mouth-piece; or, by reveising the bit in the bridle, in consequence of the joint working only to acertain distance, it will act as a still or bar month-piece, thus combining the features of both a stiff and jointed month-piece in one.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bridle-bit, provided with an elbow or rule-joint, so that it may be used as a jointed or bar-bit, substantially as herein described.

ALEXANDER P. BALDWIN.

\Vitnesses:

1) AVID BIARTIN, EMIL EnLER. 

